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...accord requires the two parties to identify by next month industries and export products that could benefit from lower tariffs, and then gradually to reduce those duties. U.S. Administration officials said the affected products would most probably include processed foods, petrochemicals, electronic equipment and automobiles...
...million to $1 billion worldwide. They are joined by the CITES secretariat, a Lausanne- based bureaucracy that monitors the ivory trade. Together, the industry and regulators argue that a legal trade based on ivory from natural elephant mortality and culling produces revenues for wildlife management and for the benefit of local African communities as an incentive to protect the herds...
...this month's Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that 49% of patients receiving the treatment were still alive after five years, in contrast to 37% of another group that did not receive the drugs. In a second and much larger study, which has yet to be published, the benefit from the drug therapy "at least matched" the results achieved in the first experiment, said Dr. Moertel...
...researchers caution, however, that the drugs are not effective for patients with more severe colon cancer, in which the malignancy has already spread throughout the body. Nor have studies shown a benefit for those patients whose cancers were detected at an early stage. Still, Dr. Michael Friedman of the National Cancer Institute called this first success for drug therapy against colon cancer a "terrific intellectual breakthrough." The institute has alerted 35,000 cancer doctors across the country. And some experts are hopeful that the findings will lead to similar therapies for other cancers...
...this work? In Georgia, where boot camps were invented in 1983, boosters claim that it costs only $3,400 to house and revamp one inmate in 90 days, in contrast to the $15,000 annual bill for housing a prisoner in the state penitentiary. Boot camps provide one unquestioned benefit: they get the youthful offenders off the street and give them a taste of the debasement of prison life while offering them a startling "one last chance" to straighten...